KEATTEN: Handmade with Pride and Precision in the USA
Performance sound manipulation products that open new sound dimensions unobtainable elsewhere – sounds that you would have never thought of.
A Thousand New Sounds at your fingertips.
What we do
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We are really excited here at Keatten Labs – we want to share with you something amazing …
Read on if you have electronic construction skills and would like to know how to construct a synthesizer, or are looking for the best cheap polyphonic synth or wish to learn how to build a polyphonic synthesizer or how to construct a paraphonic synthesiser ...
The devices we are about to introduce to you are something no one else in the sound creation world has yet to see or perceive, while providing the electronic music hobbyist and constructor world with state-of-the-art music and sound synthesis Master Constructor Kits.
These are going to revolutionize the hobbyist sound sensation and creation arena – performance sound manipulation products that open new sound dimensions unobtainable elsewhere – sounds that you would have never thought of.
What they represent is as important as what they are … sound tools that touch the very heart of the music sound creator and performer.
Tony and Dave are thrilled to announce their
"synthesizer-on-a-chip",
the Keatten Raptor engine
All of the carefully crafted virtual analogue modules can be tailored to create an infinite variety of panel or enclosure designs of your choice:
- Wire your own buttons, switches, knobs, LED's, wiring/patching/programming options to the Raptor Engine ...
You Name It. - Want a "Mini-Moog" on steroids?
Easy. - Want a Legacy Studio Rack System?
You Got It. - Perhaps you prefer to use software control?
No Problem.
Use our simple wire linking to select one of the built-in pre-sets, or use our own proprietary, (open source), simple-to-use patch language with your Raspberry Pi or Arduino. In fact our Raptor has been engineered to be compatible with Raspberry Pi Top Hat (4.5 by 4.25 inches).
Raptor Sound Engine
- Fingertip Music and Sound Creation
You can mount and build our Raptor in any enclosure of your choice - Bespoke, Eurorack, a 500 Series design, or even your own Modular System Moog Clone.
That’s it above laying on top of Tony's hand.
Announcing ... VoiceMorph
As you can see, no need for another keyboard purchase either (or any other MIDI control device), as Keatten VoiceMorph comes complete with full MIDI compatibility.
All our products are designed for Eurorack dimensions
VoiceMorph comes in four variant options for the constructor:
Here is what you get:
ALL this for the same price as a far east "big name rival". Their rival features only one VCO, does not include any contour generators to control their VCO and VCF. Let alone include Sample/Hold, Waveshape Morph, Octave Morph, Individual Pulse Width, Glide, Noise, Full Function MIDI, Tremolo, Ring Modulator, and 24 dB/Octave High Pass/Low Pass Filter.
Coming Soon ... PolyMorph
Keatten has used its combined electronics and music expertise to create the world’s first musical polyphonic synthesizer on a chip – the PolyMorph
The picture above is of an early prototype housed in a simple wooden case for us to test and refine a beta version.
It connects to any MIDI controller - so no need to buy an additional keyboard.
Of course you will want to hook your PolyMorph wizardry up to a suitable panel of controls and mount them all in a suitable enclosure - and that's the fun bit - right?
So above is a suggested layout - looks cool huh? (and all just using regular pots, switches, sockets and LED's) All easily available from your lab store cupboard or suppliers such as Mouser ...
Remember, ALL of these functions are available directly from our single chip!
And in case you are thinking 'I expect it's just a fudged paraphonic with a shared filter like all the rest'
NO, it's FULLY Polyphonic with SIX voices each consisting of a dual voltage controlled oscillator, their own 24dB/octave low and high pass filter, and dedicated voltage controlled amplifier - plus two independent envelope generators.
In addition, check all the other cool performance features that you'll only find with Keatten's PolyMorph - such as:
Oh yes, and our exponential 15 octave oscillators and filters are precise and 100% drift-free, so NO NEED for under-the-hood clunky pre-sets and range compensation pots needing regular tweaking before, or worse, during your performance!
From the second you turn it on, our PolyMorph true polyphonic music synthesizer is locked solid, ready to rock, and performance-ready.
We figured that since there are 56 million websites on Google for the phrases, "how to construct a synthesizer", "with Best cheap polyphonic synth ...
... with "How to build a polyphonic synthesizer" adding another 5 million websites to the mix …
Then why hasn’t anyone thought of a creating a single chip on a four-inch square circuit board that does just that?
We Did. And it Works.
Wanna Own One?
So What DO You Get with our
Synthesizer On A Chip?
Designed By You.
Performance-driven sound tools. Stable, repeatable, and precise. From thundering warm lows to crystal clear highs with whisper-quiet studio performance
Fully Scalable
Anything from a portable mini-synth to a growling professional studio monster. Twenty Octave Range with Zero Drift. 48 dB low, high, bandpass and notch voltage controlled filters
Multiple Enclosure Formats
Flexible and adaptable high-quality circuit boards configured to any enclosure design approach - from rack mount to performance formats. No clunky drift pre-sets - compensation and calibration are never needed
The answer to creative sounds is thinking differently and making the creation logical with innovative thinking spurring innovation, improv, and creativeness.
Doing it all, in all new ways.
Novel and Critical thinking.
Melding, Warping, and Blending sound – intuitive live performance instantly available right under your fingertips.
Keatten does for sound creation what
Elon Musk has done for rocketry
A Thousand New Sounds at your fingertips
And that makes them insanely cool …
Performance-driven sound tools. Stable, repeatable, and precise.
“ Everything we do at Keatten, we believe in challenging the status quo, we believe in thinking differently. The way we challenge the status quo is by making beautifully designed simple-to-use products, driven by user performance.
We just happen to make great professional audio products – Wanna Own One? ”
why we do it
Keatten Labs Master Constructor Series
Development boards provide the juice to pump energy into your creative product ideas – unleashing innovation into your product inventions.
Imagine how it will feel to construct and engineer your very own rock-solid unique synth solution
Our boffins are hard at work creating a brand new range of unique PCB-based Constructor/Hobbyist Products – ready to be assembled and integrated into your very own imaginings!
Each product board will have leading-edge software loaded into state-of-the-art digital signal processors providing professional studio-quality audio.
These will be manufactured on high-quality multi-layered boards – ready for your talent, construction, imagining, and application …
Smart features. Powerful technologies.
Pro 500 Series - The Keatten Raptor 500 Sound Engine is the system controller that powers every Keatten Labs product. It lets you do things you simply can’t with other sound devices.
Built-in Functionality
Powerful creativity and productivity flows, live inside every Keatten 500 Series product — these help you explore, connect, and create soundscapes more efficiently.
Capture Emotion in the Moment – whether as a performer or a studio sound creation artist
Professional tools. Studio performance.
Here at Keatten Labs, we focus on professional performance.
Blazing 192KHz technology – whisper-quiet, majestic dynamic range coupled with warm fluid sounds.
For the past five years, Keatten Labs have been quietly designing innovative products for professional studio and sound creation artists.
Create and improvise in an agile new effortless way.
Our bleeding-edge technology brings you the warmest, and most musical audio on the planet, an all-analog signal path with premium components for the lowest noise and best performance possible.
No software emulation can breathe the same depth and life into your audio creations as Keatten Labs sound solutions
Love legacy smooth lush sounds but want the performance, blending, and playability of state-of-the-art technology? You Just Found It.
Keatten Has You Covered
The Spirit of Shifting. Taken Further.
Keatten Labs Studio Series is not just better – it’s Different.
Studio Shapeshift 500 puts a complete recording and MIDI production studio at your fingertips, with everything you need to write, record, edit, and mix like never before.
Powerful sound products that you have never heard of.
With a full-featured poly channel memory bank giving instant-recall of a huge collection of sounds and loops, you’ll have everything you need to go from first inspiration to final master, no matter what kind of sounds you want to create.
Ridiculously powerful. Seriously creative.
The Studio Series gives you a dynamic way to create and arrange sounds in real-time.
Our expanded synthesis section with sound-shaping controls brings more depth and dynamics to your performance and composition.
testimonials
What they say
DAVE SHILLITO
Entrepreneur
You've done it again Dave! Fab Functions and as versatile as an egg ...
TONY ROBSON
Developer
Nice Job - it worked straight out of the box!
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